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tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: Essex

Posted: Sun Feb 13, 05 8:28 am Post subject: Canvey Island: Englands Rainforest!!!

Radio 4 Friday 15:00 Changing Places
Bug Roofs

In this week's Changing Places, Yvonne Ellis visits what has been called 'England's Little Rainforest' - Canvey Island in Essex. It may seem like an unlikely haven for wildlife, but this brownfield site on what used to be an oil refinery is jam packed with rare and special insects. As plans go ahead to build a business park on the site, Yvonne Ellis discovers how this will be a development with a difference. The insect inhabitants of the island are calling the shots, with plans to protect their habitats by building bee banks, leaving rough grassland, and creating brown roofs on the tops of the buildings. But as Yvonne discovers, not everyone is happy about the development.

twoscoops

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Location: Warwickshire

Posted: Mon Feb 14, 05 10:19 am Post subject:
Wilco.

tahir

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Posted: Mon Feb 14, 05 10:24 am Post subject:
Not exactly wildlife though is he?

twoscoops

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Posted: Mon Feb 14, 05 10:38 am Post subject:
My post was simply stating my intent to listen. Any reference to ageing pub rockers was purely coincidental.

tahir

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Posted: Mon Feb 14, 05 10:45 am Post subject:
Have you got the Billy Bragg & Wilco CD's?

twoscoops

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Posted: Mon Feb 14, 05 10:48 am Post subject:
No. Are they good? The only DF I ever knew was milk & alcohol, which I never liked. Then last week I heard Mark Radcliffe play 'you shouldn't call the doctor if you can't afford the bills' (or similar) which I trhought was brilliant. Just the sort of stuff I'd like to play. Beer music.

sean
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Posted: Mon Feb 14, 05 12:11 pm Post subject:
I think wilko had left Dr. Feelgood by the time they recorded 'Milk and Alcohol'.

tahir

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Posted: Mon Feb 14, 05 12:12 pm Post subject:
You sure? I thought it was just after

sean
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Posted: Mon Feb 14, 05 1:11 pm Post subject:
Just checked, Wilko left in 77. Milk &Alcohol, written by Nick Lowe, was on Private Practice, recorded 78.

tahir

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Posted: Mon Feb 14, 05 1:13 pm Post subject:
Alright, keep yer knickers on love

sean
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Posted: Mon Feb 14, 05 1:19 pm Post subject:
Checked because I wasn't sure, not because I was infuriated at being questioned.

twoscoops

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Posted: Mon Feb 14, 05 1:40 pm Post subject:
Nick Lowe? Drinks in the Beehive in Brentford, was married to Johnny Cash's daughter, had a million seller on the Bodyguard soundtrack...

tahir

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Posted: Mon Feb 14, 05 1:42 pm Post subject:

Twoscoops wrote:

was married to Johnny Cash's daughter

Never knew that.

sean
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Posted: Mon Feb 14, 05 1:56 pm Post subject:
Recorded the first single on Stiff Records.(I think). While we're listing Basher trivia.

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